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Police investigating unattended death along road

(KNZA)--Police are investigating the unattended death of a man found along the side of a road in Hiawatha Tuesday morning.

Police Chief Mickey Gruber said the man was found along the side Oregon Street, just west of 12th Street, shortly before 7:00.

Gruber said officers with the Hiawatha Police Department and Brown County Sheriff's Office responded to the call as well as the Hiawatha Fire Department and Town and Country EMS.

Gruber said the man wasn't a local resident and foul play is not suspected.  In addition, he said the incident did not involve a motor vehicle and is not related to a motor vehicle accident.

The man was identified Wednesday as 61-year-old Douglas Koehn, of Goltry, Oklahoma.

The investigation is continuing.

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